[New-Poetry] Poet's Ideal Library

[Anny Ballardini]

And if you had a third one?
:-)

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From: "David Graham" <grahamd at ripon.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:19 PM
Subject: [New-Poetry] Poet's Ideal Library


>I wish I had time to jump in on the discussion more fully, but alas.  Of
> course a comprehensive list is impossible, but fun to contemplate.
>
> But in some ways I'm more interested in a Desert Island list that folks
> might come up with, since by definition such short lists reveal things,
> sometimes even interesting things.
>
> My own Desert Island bag would have nothing but poetry, probably--no
> critical prose at all.  The Norton Anthology of Eng. Lit would be a good
> start, then of course collected editions of my personal pantheon, 
> including
> Shakespeare, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Williams.
>
> But if I were allowed a second carry-on just for prose, I'd first reach 
> for
> Randall Jarrell's essays.
>
>
> On 3/29/07 11:11 AM, "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
>
>> That's actually almost what we have.
>>
>> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>> Imagine the list we'd have if we included all the books that all
>>> those folks *would* have.
>>>
>>> Hal
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